Re: Ampersands in the output...

Hi Bret,

That sounds most likely served best at the application layer - for
example, if your application is written in PHP, you can use the PHP
function:

http://us3.php.net/htmlentities

You can also use regular expressions or PHP's str_replace to just
replace all instances of '&' with '&'.

Pretty sure other languages have their own methods as well.

-- Mitch

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:22:41 -0800, Schuhmacher, Bret
<Bret(dot)Schuhmacher(at)aspect(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm using postgres to return business names via a function. In the
> function I "xml-ify" the output by taking the name and wrap it with
> start/end tags, as in "<name>name</name>" (there's a lot more to this
> and I'm simplifying greatly). However, the problem is that some of the
> names have "&" in them, like "Joes Bar & Grill", which really should be
> escaped in XML.
>
> Any ideas how to escape those things before they get to the recipient
> (i.e. my application, IE, Mozilla, etc.)? Is there a built-in function
> or something I could make use of? I suppose I could write a little more
> code in my function to look in the field and try to do a string replace
> or something, but is that the most efficient method?
>
> Thanks in advance! :-)
>
> Bret
>
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